27-30A From Lame President to Lame Duck

It’s a serious handicap for an elected leader to be a lame duck. Far worse, though, if the “leader” is just plain lame.

Poor Joe Biden has tumbled into both ditches. He set himself up for lame duckism in the 2020 race by promising voters that he would merely be “a bridge, not… anything else.” He portrayed himself as a bipartisan, inside player, an interim senior statesman who would calmly pilot the ship of state from Trump’s bombast to whomever was next.